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The Unincorporated Future (Unincorporated Man #4)
by
Dani Kollin (Goodreads Author),
Eytan Kollin
Sandra O’Toole is the president of the Outer Alliance, which stretches from the asteroid belt to the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Resurrected following the death of Justin Cord, the unincorporated man, O’Toole has become a powerful political figure and a Machiavellian leader determined to win the Civil War against the inner planets at almost any cost. And the war has been goin...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
August 21st 2012
by Tor Books
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After three books toiling through the space opera battle of zero resources the ending to this book fell totally flat. There were no questioning, probing ideas, just neat wrap ups that could have occurred three books earlier. The one thing I kept waiting for never happened and there was almost no true conflict. I will defend The Unincorporated Man as a novel with some of the best and most creative and intriguing science fiction ideas in fifty years, but the series simply crashed and burned after...more
This installment is a fitting conclusion to almost a decade of war that ripped the world in two camps, those that fought for their “security” and those that fought for “freedom.” Billions of people died in the process. Be prepared to see the life of your favorite characters extinguished—sometimes as mere collateral! And one of the best things that this installment achieves is the coalescing of the two major stories/wars, which I have been waiting for since the first book! Namely, it brings onto...more
The Unincorporated Future is the epic closure to the Unincorporated saga by Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin. In this action-packed tale of space battles and vendetta, the Kollin brothers sum up the conflicts in one final and explosive ending. The story continues a war on two fronts: the frontiers of space and the wastelands of the Neuro, where dwell the ever-mysterious and watchful race of the avatars. It is from The Martian Neuro that the avatar “Al” and his hundreds of thousands of copies reign....more
With extremely heavy-handed, thinly-veiled allegory followed by the dispensation of allegory in favor of directly informing the reader's opinions, this book ranks low on my list along with its two predecessors. Characters you might have liked once become characters about whom you couldn't care less and the characters you hate stick around well past their sell-by date. Points for gritty sci-fi realism, but I'd've been better served, I think, stopping with book 1 and just imagining the fate of the...more
I was surprised that this series continued to surprise me. Just when I was sure I knew what was happening, I was wrong. The first two books in this sci-fi space thriller have the best new ideas whether it is about future social constructs or how warfare might be conducted. It felt like I was reading a new Heinlein again. But the characters and story lines have enough depth and complexity to keep interest going right to the end. Bravo.
Well there's no question about it... you CAN ruin a good series.
I can deal with the somewhat sad ending... that's fine, I don't need to be happy all the time - that gets boring. What I can't deal with is that the book is basically a summary of what could have been a novel, and a bunch of apocalyptic scenarios seemingly written by a 10 year old.
I can deal with the somewhat sad ending... that's fine, I don't need to be happy all the time - that gets boring. What I can't deal with is that the book is basically a summary of what could have been a novel, and a bunch of apocalyptic scenarios seemingly written by a 10 year old.
Last in series. The war between the sheeplike, corruptly lead capitalists and the freedom loving spacers reaches its end amid billions of deaths. The authors are very....deliberate....storytellers who leave in almost every step in their plotlines and conversations--but their story is a good one, and can be enjoyed with judicious skipping.
This fourth book in the unincorporated series surprised me several times. The Kollins aren't afraid to write good characters doing bad things, and they absolutely did not end the war the way I expected.
a lot of people mention the Kollins' philosophizing as if it's a bad thing - but something i love about their writing is the way they pull apart the issues, from both sides, examining the underpinnings and providing motivation that's understandable and believable. I never get grumpy because a char...more
a lot of people mention the Kollins' philosophizing as if it's a bad thing - but something i love about their writing is the way they pull apart the issues, from both sides, examining the underpinnings and providing motivation that's understandable and believable. I never get grumpy because a char...more
Was 3.5 right up until the epilogue, which really spoke to my inner sap.
A fitting conclusion, speaking to the core themes of personal freedom and faith, with a much needed reduced focus on military maneuvers. While I enjoyed the last two, the Kollins are at their best writing character and philosophy.
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A fitting conclusion, speaking to the core themes of personal freedom and faith, with a much needed reduced focus on military maneuvers. While I enjoyed the last two, the Kollins are at their best writing character and philosophy.
A DRM-free Tor ebook.
I enjoyed this book, but at the same time, feel a little let down. It seems this was left open for another book, with some loose ends to tie up. The very final chapter seemed a little too happily ever after.
A great conclusion to a sweeping dystopian epic. The ending wasn't a result of pandering to the audience, that is to say, there were no easy outs, no happily ever afters (well maybe one). My personal favorite was the nod to Arthurian mythology at the very end.
Mostly satisfying conclusion to trilogy. Manages to answer most questions raised in earlier works, as to plot and characters. Conclusion is somewhat forced.
I liked this novel, and it does offer some unexpected twists, turns, and reveals. But I agree with some other reviewers. The highly intriguing concept set forth in the first novel is completely gone by this last one, and the overall series suffers for it. There also are some pulpy aspects to the book, with the heroes at times being a little too heroic and the villains too villainous, which is a result of the approaches in the earlier novels. A good read, but I felt it was the weakest of the seri...more
Good conclusion to the quartet of novels. I little rushed, but they'd fought all the space battles they could have and needed the slight twist ending to wrap it up satisfactorally
Blockbuster ending. I never saw it coming. Dani & Eytan are bloody genii. By the time I made it 75% into the book, I was terrified of a thud-and-blunder ending. Instead, I was delighted to find a hopeful, even joyous, conclusion. I have a new favorite series.
Nice conclusion to the series.
BAM! The series goes out the way it came in. I thought the series slipped a little in Book 3, but it came back in a big way in Book 4. Every storyline you wanted resolved is, enough of an opening for a future series set is a further flung series, a great resolution to the dilemma, all of it incredibly well done. A+.
This is the final book in the "Unincorporated ..." series. The ending, at least for me, was stupendous -- I didn't see it coming at all. What a statement of the human spirit! I very highly recommend this series (they really must be read as a series; otherwise there are too many things that wouldn't make sense).
A good conclusion to a good series. It wasn't as good as the first book in the series, but still well worth reading.
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I'm an accidental science fiction author.
A few years back, broke, desperate and living with my wife and three kids at my in-laws, I decided to get together with my brother, Eytan and write a book. Mind you I had no idea how to go about this but I did know that Eytan had some great ideas and little tenacity and I had a lot of tenacity and a gift for knowing how to turn great ideas into a marketabl...more
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A few years back, broke, desperate and living with my wife and three kids at my in-laws, I decided to get together with my brother, Eytan and write a book. Mind you I had no idea how to go about this but I did know that Eytan had some great ideas and little tenacity and I had a lot of tenacity and a gift for knowing how to turn great ideas into a marketabl...more
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